Revolution Monument, Mexico City

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

~Ernest Shackleton.

Locks, Mexico City.

It may be that your whole purpose in life is

simply to serve as a warning to others.

~Unknown.

Daisies, Portand, Oregon

She loves me,

she loves me not.

~Anon.

Barranca del Cobre, Chihuahua, Mexico

Right is right, even if everyone is against it,

wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

~William Penn.

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our soul.

~Pablo Picasso.

Niccolo Macchiavelli, Florence, Italy

Hatred is gained as much by good 

works as by evil.

~Niccolo Macchiavelli.

Galileo Galilei, Florence, Italy

I do not feel obligated to believe that

the same God who has endowed us with

sense, reason, and intellect has intended

us to forgo their use.

~Galileo Galilei.

San Antonio, Florence, Italy

Doubt is a pain too lonley to know
that faith is his twin brother.

~Khalil Gibran.

Giovani Boccaccio, Florence, Italy

Do as we say, and not like we do.

~Giovani Boccaccio.

Leonardo da Vinci, Florence, Italy

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~Leonardo da Vinci.

Francesco Petrarca, Florence, Italy

Five enemies of peace inhabit in us

-avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride:

If this were to be banished, we should 

infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

~Francesco Petrarca

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florence, Italy

Feith in oneself is the best and safest course.

~Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Dante Allighieri, Florence, Italy

I love to doubt as well as know.

~Dante Allighieri.